Tennessee Football Volunteers offensive guard Dylan Wiesman is on the 2016 Outland Trophy Watch List for the nation’s top interior lineman.
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He was part of a struggling offensive line in 2014 and was thrust into a full-time starting role in 2015. Now, Dylan Wiesman is entering his senior year and is a candidate to become the nation’s top interior lineman.
Wiesman is one of 70 players on the 2016 Outland Trophy Watch List, which includes offensive and defensive linemen.
The 6’4″ 310 pound lineman is a candidate due to his consistency.
He is lauded for his versatility, but that’s a bit overrated because the one time he started at left guard last year instead of right guard last year was against the Alabama Crimson Tide. And the offensive line looked horrendous that day.
Still, Wiesman is a great player who is expected to be a leader on that unit this coming year.
Tennessee’s incredible ground game should help Wiesman get even more recognition, so this is an award that the Vols really have a shot at winning.
Wiesman joins Joshua Dobbs, Jalen Hurd, Trevor Daniel, Ethan Wolf, Jalen Reeves-Maybin, Cameron Sutton, Derek Barnett, and fellow Tennessee football offensive lineman Coleman Thomas as Vols on watch lists for 2016 awards.
The three defensive players, Barnett, Sutton, and Reeves-Maybin, are on two separate awards watch lists: the Bronko Nagurski Trophy and the Chuck Bednarik Award.
But Wiesman may be the biggest underdog of them all considering where he started and how he burst onto the scene.
With him on one side and Jashon Robertson getting healthy, the Vols could have the best guard tandem in the country, and it could make for the best ground game in the country when you consider the weapons they have in the backfield.